Since Berkeley has a Center for Right Wing Studies, why doesn’t it have a Center for Left Wing Studies—or is that the rest of the University. The good news is that the Center is financed with private donations—but is on the campus and is allowed to use the name of the University—giving it unwarranted credentials.

“Lawrence Rosenthal, a long time faculty member at Berkeley and Fulbright award winner, is the chair and lead researcher of Berkeley’s CRWS. Rosenthal told the Daily Californian in May 2018 that the center does not receive any funding from the University and is funded entirely by private donations.

The academic coordinator for the CRWS is Dr. Christine Trost. Trost’s bio on the CRWS website lists numerous roles that she has held in the past, including a position on the Academic Advisory Board of the Southern Poverty Law Center‘s Intelligence Project.

The SPLC has targeted several of today’s prominent conservatives, including Campus Reform’s own former program manager Hannah Scherlacher, who was on an SPLC Watch List in 2017. Trost holds positions with both the CWRS and Berkeley’s Institute for the Study of Societal Issues (ISSI). Yet, Trost told the Daily Californian that the CWRS is “not a political organization.”

Trosts was part of the Anti-First Amendment, scam artists Southern Poverty Law Center—which opposes free speech for those that believe in the Rule of Law, and sends out press releases smearing honest Americans. This is just a propaganda center on the Berkeley Campus, as is most of the rest of the University. Thought you should know how Sacramento helps promote totalitarians regimes in California.

UC-Berkeley has a Center for Right Wing Studies, which one employee said is nonpolitical.

However, the center’s past work suggests a political bias against conservative values.

The University of California, Berkeley has a Center for Right Wing Studies (CRWS), which was founded during the rise of the conservative Tea Party in 2009 and has been around since.

As the name implies, the center studies right-wing movements both in the United States and abroad, and has held events on topics including, but not limited to, historical and present-day American conservatism, Christianity and the Religious Right, and European populist movements.

“We do not have a political agenda. … Our mission is scholarship.”

Lawrence Rosenthal, a long time faculty member at Berkeley and Fulbright award winner, is the chair and lead researcher of Berkeley’s CRWS. Rosenthal told the Daily Californian in May 2018 that the center does not receive any funding from the University and is funded entirely by private donations.

The academic coordinator for the CRWS is Dr. Christine Trost. Trost’s bio on the CRWS website lists numerous roles that she has held in the past, including a position on the Academic Advisory Board of the Southern Poverty Law Center‘s Intelligence Project.

The SPLC has targeted several of today’s prominent conservatives, including Campus Reform’s own former program manager Hannah Scherlacher, who was on an SPLC Watch List in 2017. Trost holds positions with both the CWRS and Berkeley’s Institute for the Study of Societal Issues (ISSI). Yet, Trost told the Daily Californian that the CWRS is “not a political organization.”

“We do not have a political agenda,” Trost said. “Our mission is scholarship.”

According to the University of California Press, the center was known as the Center for the Comparative Study of Right-Wing Movements as recently as 2012, when Rosenthal and Trost co-authored a book on the Tea Party rise to prominence as a subset of the Republican Party titled, Steep: The Precipitous Rise of the Tea Party.

Titles and descriptions of past events hosted by the center appear to criticize conservative perspectives.

Prior to that, in the spring of 2015, the center hosted an event titled “Ideas with Consequences: The Federalist Society and the Conservative Counterrevolution”. The YouTube video description for that event describes the lawyers as a group that has a history of “promoting constitutional theories that had previously been dismissed as ludicrously radical.” The society’s membership was also pinpointed as the watchdog that “prevents the well-documented phenomenon of conservative judges turning moderate after years on the bench.”

Amid protests of an Ann Coulter speaking event that occurred at Berkeley in spring 2017, Rosenthal was quoted in a Fox News story, titled“Battle for Berkeley: Will Ann Coulter spark another clash?” saying that “Berkeley is a place of longtime left-wing protest” and that right-wing extremists “want to make it a flashpoint.”

The CRWS will host its inaugural Conference on Right Wing Studies April 25-27. The event will bring feature scholars “whose work deals with the Right as a social, political, and/or intellectual phenomenon from the 19th century to the present day.”

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Everyone on campus knew from the outset that this would really the “Berkeley Center For Proving That Right-Wingers are Crazy and Evil.” All you had to do was look at the numerous academic studies about the Tea Party to know that the fix would be in.

Sort of like Kamala Harris’ Mortgage Fraud Division, established by her when she was Attorney General of CA. They did not go after the banks for mortgage fraud. Only the attorneys working to stop the bank fraud!